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ODDS AND ENDS.

Fishing smacks are used in ang.
ling for husband.
Is woman loudly dressed when
her garments rustic as she walksi
The strike among matches is
slowly subsiding as the days
lengthen.
The blacksmith is the worst kind
of bore. lie can make a wheel
tired.
There may be more ways than
one to kill a cat, but one is quite
enough for one cat.
There are a great many things
that cause a man to drink, and one
of them is thirst.
The small boy at his spelling les.
son is like a postage stamp: he Of
ten gets stuck on a letter.
"Luxuries are high this year,"
said the small boy as he climbed
for thepreserves on the upper shelf.
A naturalist recommends eating
raw onions for insomnia. The the.
DRY probably is that you will go to
sleep to avoid smelling your breath.
A fashionable note says that the
new style of cuffs are worn very
close to the wrists. That is the
way that old style handouts have
always been worn.
Little mani understand, sir,
that you have called me an unmiti.
gated liarS Big man-No, l didn't
use the word "unmitigated." Little
man-Then l accept your apology.
When the youth of the period is
at bis desk in the store an hour
seems about ninety minutes, but
when he is at his girls house in the
evening It's duration does not seem
more than fifteen minutes.
A lady who had her photograph
taken was showing it to her hus
band. "Do you think 1t looks like
mef' she asked. "Yes,' he said
after a critical examination, "it
looks like you, only it seems very
quiet"
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A Sporting Mans Experience
A CHAPTER FROM THE LIFE OF T. J.
N'MULLAN, OF CoRINTH, MISS.


Mr.. Mcmillan is one of the best
known chicken and dog fanciers in
the South. His coops and kennels
are filled with the finest specimens
of game chickens and well.bred
sporting dogs.
For many years of his life he had
a serious misfortune, which he ex-
plains IN the following letter, which
also tells what was the unlucky
sporting mans real Mascot:
You will pardon me for address.
ing you on a subject on which l
know you must get numerous, if
not innumerable, letters. but graft.
tude prompts me to tell you about
what regard my most remarkable
cure of rheumatism by your S. s.
S. For ten years / suffered with
rheumatism. had about "satur-
ated" my entire body. | had pains
in every part of 1t. Ny left leg was
the worst affected. Even to-day,
though am entirely well, my left
leg is a little smaller than the right,
shriveled from rheumatism. For
five years | may say that was III
danger of starvation from inability
to work at my trade on account of
this terrible disease. When ] came
to Corinth from Alabama / was on
crutches for two years. Of course
during ali of these sad years was
attended by good physicians.
They gave me powerful doses of
potash and sarsaparilla, which did
relieve me some for awhile, but l
got no permanent relief until, by a
friends persuasion, | used S. s. s.
| determined from the benefit re-
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gan taking the medicine | weighed
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the thirteenth bottle / weighed 237
pounds, and weigh that yet.
| regard your medicine as the
poor mans best friend, if he will
only take it III time, and thus save
him from eXtravagant doctors
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With gratitude and with best
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Your obedient servant,
T. j. MCMULLAN.
Corinth, Miss, Feb. II, 1897.
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deep reward in being its future
inv
A NOBLE DEATH.

A Southern paper prints the fol-
lowing moving story of sublime
self.sacrifice by a dOg-a fine large
| Newfoundland. A camping.party
on the coast of Georgia, near Sa'
vannah had been amusing them
selves by swimming in the bay,
and a venturesomelad named Char
lie Butler had swan much farther,
and stayed longer than the rest.
The writer (who was the owner OF
the dog dressed himself and was
busy at the camp ground, preparing
supper, when he heard the alarm.
A sudden cutlery told me some
thing was going wrong on the shore.
Grabbing a rifle and Fastening
back, with Carlo at my heels, / be-
held Butler some distance away
swimming with all his might aud
only a few yards behind him the
vertical fin Of a huge shark. There
seemed no possibility that the boys
life could be saved we were with
ont boats and the fish and man
were so nearly in line from US that
| I did not dare to fire. In q second
Black Carlo, compromising the
situation, dashed through the surf
and started to swim toward Char.
lie with a speed 1 have never seen
equaled by any land animal. The
boy having leisurely covered the
most of the distance between the
reef and the shore when the man
eater started after him, was CON-
paratively fresh, and when he saw
a noble dog Fastening to his help,
made a final desperate effort to es-
cape. In another instant Carlo was
close to him. Just then, however,
the shark, having come near
enough, turned so that we could
see his white belly glistening in the
twilight, and all was ready for the
spriug that would surely have end
ed Charles life, when Carlo leap
ing clean over Buffers form, ap-
peared to 90 straight into the mon
ster's mouth; and the latters, hav-
ing got his supper, disappeared in
deep water, while the lad in a few
seconds was safe on the shore
That night our Joy over our COM
rade's reissue was mingled with sor-
row for the life so gallantly sacri-
feed in his behalf, and to this day
the memory Of that thrilling scene
fills me with sadness for the loss Of
Black Carlo, my dog hero.
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ST. NICHOLAS
for 1867.

Stories by Louisa NJ. Alcott and Frank
Z. Stockton,-several by each author.
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H Is Dollars In The Pocket.

The improved stock progress has
come to stay. Scrub stock is fast
disappearing and full blood sires
are annually adding millions of
dollars to our agricultural prosper
ity. No reading, thinking, pro-
gressive farmer wants to breed to
a grade or scrub sire of any kind
of stock, if a full blood sire can be
had or his services secured. Amer
lea leads the world in all the i'm
proved breeds of stock, and we be-
gin to supply the markets OF the
world.
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KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

How much land did you cult
vate last year, Havey you any idea
of the cost per acre OF any of your
crops2 Did you undertake to cult
vate too many acres? Did you cut
one ton of hay on three acres, or
three tons on one 7 Were the other
crops in the same ratio?
The chances are ten TO one that
not one farmer in fifty throughout
the country can give a really salts
factory answer to these questionsi
The trader who buys any of your
products knows whether he makes
or loses on every item of produce
you bring him, and do you know
whether or not you are selling at a
profit or loss
1t costs you more to cultivate
two acres than one. Make one
acre produce all it will before you
waste your labor on the second.
You must invest capital IN bust
ness if you would reap a return.
Labor is capital.
Brain work is capital.
intelligence is capital.
Manure is capital.
Seed is capital.
The best seed, In the best soil,
with the best manure, containing
all, and the best elements of plant
life and growth is the best invest
ment that can be made with a view
of obtaining the best crop from the
land, and it matters not what that
crop is to be.
You take and it costs, you give
and it pays.
The law of compensation cannot
be violated.
You cannot draw from the bank
without making deposits, unless
you exhaust your capital, or your
credit.
Your farm is a bank which will
reward You according to your
merit.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
SLEEPING ON A DIRT FLOOR.

If, says the Rev. Farmer Wal
lace, a good dry clay bed caunot
be secured it is better TO retain the
plank floor. But the clay floor is
best, and if it can be of about the
quality of dirt which will make
good brick, it is better than black
soil, and if it is inclined to red
dishness so much the better, as
then there is an assurance that it
contains the muriate of iron, which
is healthy for hogs, applied out
wardly or inwardly. One writer
says: at is one thing to read how
thing works, and another to see
it, We have noticed articles say
ing that dirt bottom is the best
floor to the sleeping place tor hogs,
if it is furnished with a roof and
hogs allowed plenty of liberty
We suppose these men must know
what they are talking about, but
our faith was about so per cent.
doubt as to its working satisfactor'
lily except in favored soils. But
last fall We tried it. We LETT some
thirty hogs in the pasture and fixed
things SO they could run under a
COW shed to sleep. The result was
that the ground was always dry
and dusty under the shed, rainy
weather and all, and not particle
of filth to be seen. We never had
hogs do 80 we'll before nor enjoy
their surroundings better, and we
have noticed the difference in other
cases, where farmers have bedded
their hogs on the floor, floor and
bedding being damp and foul IN
rainy weather, and the hogs chilled
and rough coated. Provided that a
space of eight or ten rods is put
between the feeding place and the
sleeping place of hogs they will
prove themselves the cleanest do
nestle animals we have.
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The Country Gentleman has the
following caution; Now that the
use of Paris green and London
purple is becoming so common for
the destruction of noxious insects,
operators are apt to grow careless
in it's use, and the chief danger
lies in this carelessness. In ap-
plying it to the young apple crop,
the operator must keep on the
windward side. Otherwise the
wind might give him a heavier
dose of the poison than would be
desirable. Be sure that all ami
mails areexcluded before the ground
is thoroughly washed with heavy
rains. Never apply it dry where
the wind might carry the dust to a
dwelling or to a pasture. Never
treat potato field with it unless
the fences which surround it are
strong enough to exclude all do
nestle animals. When it is borne
in mind that the tenth of a grain
is as large a dose as can safely be
given to an adult human being, as
a medicine, it will be at once per
ceived that a very little of the
dust, accidentally breathed, would
readily poison the operator.
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To induce q hen to lay, let the
nest he partly shaded. When she
wants to sit, if you wish to re-
move her do 1t at night, and make
her surroundings as nearly as pos
sible like those Of the nest she laid
in. On a farm where there are
many hooks and corners, and
where the farmer has some one TO
attend to his fowls, boxes may be
put in a number of places, and the
fowls will select and lay, each IN
her favorIte nest, and when the
time for sitting has come, each
will 90 to her accustomed nest
without much changing or con-
fusion; but where the accommoda-
tons are more limited, more
tention must be given 70 the mes
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care you afraid of me, Polly =
said her employer one day in spring
Polly had worked steadily all win
ter and refused any and all favors
from Mr.. Anterior.
"No, but you are so different
from me. You are the rich Mr.
AthertoD, am only plain Polly
DarrOw.
"I see. All right, Polly, but viii
you come and see my mother some
day, She is plain Mrs. Atherton.'
ayes, I will go.'
"Let it be to morrow, then. ]
Will call for you"
"Mother," said Tom Anterior
next day, "tbis is POlly.' And al
his handsome stately mother greet
ed her he said: "YOu remember
how Polly took care of me and SEM
me bone to youH She refuses t.
have anything to say to me because
she is plain Polly Darrow. Will
you try and make her say she viii
be plain Folly Anterior ! i need
some one to take care of me now
And be left them together.
"Polly's "tramp" was excusablt
in persuadIng her to assume the
care of him at the earliest possible
moment; and three months late,
the Anterior mansion was the quiet
scene of as happy a marriage as il
had ever witnessed.
In the sensible mothers heart "a
her gratitude for a SOD saved wa:
added q genuine affection for this
new daughter, who had 6rst sent
the tramp home, and now bad her
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WESTWARD Ao:S, No. /. NOS
Daily. Daily. s,eIisin
IL kun ~.
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-01-21
Fire at Dawson.

A special to the TRIBUNE from Dawson
gives the details of fire in that city at
about o'clock yesterday morning The
wooden building owned and occupied by
B. F. Mccain and B. C. Gibbons as a hard
ware store was entirely consumed, with
the small stock of goods it contained. For
time the livery stable Of Phillip Devore
was thought to be in serious danger, as a
strong wind was blowing the flames in
that direction, but before the fire got very
intense the wind abated. The origin of
cred by insurance.